Kees Van Der Westen

Visitors to the MADISON shop in Bucharest may well have spotted the warmly glowing front panel of a compact, red-striped Faema E61 espresso machine that long treated clients to delicious shots of espresso. While that retro machine is now happily retired to a beach house on the Black Sea, its replacement could not have been better: a Spirit, an illustrious espresso-making workhorse, handcrafted in the Netherlands by Kees van der Westen.